He was always going to say he was happy, we had a record points total in January - he's hardly going to talk about replacing team members. I'm sure if there was money available he'd have been interested in a few additions, we never spend money in January and we're getting where the loan deals we used to rely on just aren't the quality we need anymore.
Hodgson due to his status in the game, the club seemed willing to basically do what he wanted (within reason), spending on Ridgewell in January, and backing him on Long. I think due to Clarke's lower status and a much lower risk of him leaving, they can get away with being a lot more stringent, particularly with the start we had - justifying the teams quality in their view.
He certainly deserves the summer, and there's no way the club will sack him with the club virtually safe. We don't want to be constantly changing manager. And nor should we, we have the lowest wage bill and the players aren't that good - Hodgson got the England job on the back of his work with us. He's an excellent manager. But Clarke deserves time too. There are concerns to be had, over style, what direction exactly he's taken us. But he's also been unlucky - our injury record was superb the past couple of seasons, this year its been terrible.
With the increased tv deal and given we spent nothing this January, he needs to be actually backed in the summer. We did well in the transfer market, but that was for a limited number of players last year, this year we're going to be looking at 7 or 8 - relying on free's and loan's for that is going to be a very difficult prospect.